WWTB?
Another week, another batch of Tuneage-approved releases. As usual, all links end at Amazon.
- Beck - One Foot in the Grave (Extra tracks) (Buy the CD)
- The Boy Least Likely To - The Law of the Playground (Buy the CD/MP3s)
- The Datsuns - Headstunts (Buy the CD)
- Death Cab for Cutie - The Open Door EP (Buy the CD/MP3s)
- Ida Maria - Fortress Round My Heart (Buy the CD/MP3s)
- Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come (Buy the CD/MP3s)
- Metric - Fantasies (Buy the CD/MP3s)
- Papercuts - You Can Have What You Want (Buy the CD/MP3s)
- Prefuse 73 - Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian (Buy the CD/MP3s)
- Silversun Pickups - Swoon (Buy the CD/MP3s) (Artwork pictured above)
The Boy Least Likely To - “The First Snowflake”
With St Louis recently experiencing its first snowfall of the season, combined with my love of TBLLT, how could I resist posting this?
Simpler and more subdued than most of the material on The Best Party Ever, “The First Snowflake” serves as a song suitable for kick-starting winter.
The Boy Least Likely To - A Balloon on a Broken String
The Boy Least Likely To aren’t difficult to describe: they’re upbeat, they’re playful, they’re fun, and they’re good. In fact, I like to think that if all the Fischer-Price toys I owned as a kid magically started playing excellent music, it would sound a lot like The Boy Least Likely To.
TBLLT’s 2005 release, The Best Party Ever is one of my favorite albums in recent memory, and I’ve been itching for new material ever since. Well, TBLLT recently released two new tracks to their MySpace page, and I’m happy to say that their sound hasn’t changed much. It’s grown up a little, but maintains all the childish playfulness that made the The Best Party Ever so much fun, and this is a good thing.
Bonus: When you’re done with the song above, check out my favorite track from their first album; it’s called I See Spiders When I Close My Eyes.
